Family HOLOTHURIIDAE
Compiler and date details
2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
2001 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
1995 - F.W.E. Rowe & J. Gates, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Introduction
The family Holothuriidae is distributed in tropical and temperate seas. It comprises six genera. Five genera (and 14 subgenera in Holothuria) and sixty-four species are recorded in the Australian fauna.
Holothuriids are aspidochirote holothurians distinguished from other families within the order by the following combination of character states: tentacles peltate, 16–30; podia (as ventral pedicels and dorsal papillae) present; gonad in single tuft on left side of dorsal mesentery; ossicles in variety of forms including three dimensional tables, two dimensional plates and rods but not including 'C'- or 'S'-shaped rods; tentacle ampullae present; cuvierian organs sometimes present.
General References
Rowe, F.W.E. 1969. A review of the family Holothuriidae (Holothurioidea: Aspidochirotida). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 18(4): 117-170 figs 1-21
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 11-Dec-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |